Thursday, September 15, 2016

One wonders if Hillary Clinton will call Gregory Hicks a liar, just as she has called Benghazi parents Patricia Smith and Charles
Woods liars for their testimony that she blamed the terrorist attack on an Internet video in front of their son’s caskets as their
bodies were brought home.
Hicks, a 25-year Foreign Service Office and former chief of station in Libya at the time of the Benghazi attack, gave riveting and
damning testimony before Congress on Hillary’s lies and criminal negligence in the matter. The last man to speak to Ambassador
Christopher Stevens, he has exposed the video lie, documented how he told Hillary’s State Department what was happening in
real time that fateful night, and how her State Department ignored warnings from Stevens and others about the gathering terrorist
storm and the woeful lack of security.
Now retired, private citizen Hicks goes farther, telling Fox News that Hillary Clinton broke laws while condemning four
Americans to death at the hands of terrorists:
Just as the Constitution makes national security the President’s highest priority, U.S. law mandates the secretary of
state to develop and implement policies and programs "to provide for the security... of all United States personnel
on official duty abroad.”
This includes not only the State Department employees, but also the CIA officers in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
And the Benghazi record is clear: Secretary Clinton failed to provide adequate security for U.S. government
personnel assigned to Benghazi and Tripoli.
The Benghazi Committee’s report graphically illustrates the magnitude of her failure. It states that during August
2012, the State Department reduced the number of U.S. security personnel assigned to the Embassy in Tripoli from
34 (1.5 security officers per diplomat) to 6 (1 security officer per 4.5 diplomats), despite a rapidly deteriorating
security situation in both Tripoli and Benghazi. Thus, according to the Report, “there were no surplus security
agents” to travel to Benghazi with Amb. Stevens “without leaving the Embassy in Tripoli at severe risk.”
Had Ambassador Stevens’ July 2012 request for 13 additional American security personnel (either military or
State Department) been approved rather than rejected by Clinton appointee Under Secretary of State for
Management Pat Kennedy, they would have traveled to Benghazi with the ambassador, and the Sept. 11 attack
might have been thwarted.
Hicks also addressed the claim by Hillary that security at Benghazi was not her responsibility and that she had delegated that task
to “experts”:

U.S. law also requires the secretary of state to ensure that all U.S. government personnel assigned to a diplomatic
post abroad be located at one site. If not, the secretary -- and only the secretary -- with the concurrence of the
agency head whose personnel will be located at a different location, must issue a waiver. The law, which states
specifically that the waiver decision cannot be delegated, was passed after the 1998 bombing of two U.S.
embassies in Africa, when deficient security was blamed for that debacle under Bill Clinton's presidency.

It was Hillary’s responsibility to guarantee the security of U.S. diplomatic personnel abroad, a responsibility that cannot be
delegated. She failed miserably on both counts and has lied about it ever since. Hillary Clinton that night knew that the video in
question had nothing to do with Benghazi. Gregory Hicks told the truth before Congress and was rewarded with a demotion:
We have the testimony of Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya and a foreign service officer for 22
years. He was demoted to desk officer for telling the truth that those in Libya knew it was a terrorist attack from
the "get-go," that there was no "protest" or mention of one from anyone on the ground, and that the infamous
YouTube video was "a non-event" in Libya
Yet that is what she told the Benghazi parents on the tarmac. Hillary and her State Department has warning, including from
Ambassador Stevens himself, that Benghazi was an insecure trap in the face of a growing terrorist threat. As Investor’s Business
Daily editorialized on documents unearthed by Judicial Watch:
The documents describe Libya as hardly the poster child for the Arab Spring, and echo warnings sent to State by
Stevens himself. He was aware of an attack on a convoy carrying the British ambassador to Libya and a June 2012
attack where an improvised explosive device blew a hole in the Benghazi consulate wall. Nowhere in the 486
pages is mention of or concern for the effects of a video.
On Aug. 8, 2012, Stevens sent a two-page cable to the State Department entitled "The Guns of August: Security in
Eastern Libya" and noted a dangerous "security vacuum" in and around Benghazi, as well as the presence of
terrorist training camps. He was ignored.
The documents reveal that, early on the day after the attack, the Pentagon received intelligence briefing slides
detailing that the June 6, 2012, attack was tied to al-Qaida-linked terrorists seeking an Islamic state in Libya and
who threatened to attack U.S. interests there. It also said the June 6 attack "came in response to the 5 June (2012)
drone strike on senior al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-libi."
That Sept. 11 was a terrorist attack was known before, during and after it took place.
"I personally ... think the (U.S. Africa Command) very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration,
this was a terrorist attack," Gen. Carter Ham, head of the Command, testified behind closed doors in June 2013
before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
And that, Ham said, was the "nature of the conversation" he had with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint
Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey moments before a 30-minute meeting with Obama prior to the president
resting up for his fundraising Las Vegas trip.
Hillary Clinton ignore the pleas for added security at Benghazi, the terrorist threat that was building, and then let pleas for a
rescue fall on deaf ears. Will she now add Gregory Hicks to her list of Benghazi “liars” that includes Patricia Smith and Charles
Woods?
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason
Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.

When asked about security at Benghazi on Sept. 11, Mrs. Clinton has repeatedly asserted her lack of responsibility.
Initially, she said that she never read any of the reporting on security conditions or any of the requests for
additional security, claiming that “she delegated security to the professionals.” More recently, she stated that “[I]t
was not my ball to carry.” But the law says otherwise. Sound familiar?

Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.

The Goals of Communism

(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.